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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
If not the NSA, who should store the phone data? — A measure that President Obama is considering as a way to curb the National Security Agency's mass storage of phone data is already facing resistance — not only from the intelligence community but also from privacy advocates, the phone industry and some lawmakers.| Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal: |
Spy Agency Drowns in Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims … LAUSANNE, Switzerland— William Binney, creator of some of the computer code used by the National Security Agency to snoop on Internet traffic around the world, delivered an unusual message here in September …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Obama's NSA Phone Spying Reforms Might Make Things Worse — President Barack Obama turned heads just days before Christmas when he announced that he is “seriously” considering following the recommendations set forth by an advisory panel, which he appointed, that suggested a major overhaul …
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Gizmodo, The Switch, Associated Press and Boing Boing
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Chromebooks' success punches Microsoft in the gut — Amazon, NPD Group trumpet sales of the bare-bones laptops in 2013 to consumers and businesses — Chromebooks had a very good year, according to retailer Amazon.com and industry analysts. — And that's bad news for Microsoft.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large — Christopher Mims, writing for Quartz, “2013 Was a Lost Year for Tech”: … What a sad pile of piss-on-everything cynicism. — Was 2013 a seminal or particularly extraordinary year for technology? No, I'd say not.
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AppleInsider, iMore, Trends, Gigaom Research, Silicon Valley Watcher and Gigaom
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Reddit anticipates profitability through expansion of Reddit Gifts — Reddit reaches for profits through a geek-culture bazaar — (Reuters) - Social news hub Reddit snagged an interview with Barack Obama last year. The big get for 2013 was reaching 90 million unique visitors a month …
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| Stanley White / Reuters: |
Sony to give up on sale of its battery unit: media — (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp has decided not to sell its lithium-ion battery unit, media reported on Sunday, in a gamble that it can turn the business around with a weak yen and growing demand for smart phone batteries.| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Paul Graham Says Women “Haven't Been Hacking For the Past 10 Years” — The Information just proved that it's worth the $400 price of admission. On display in an interview with Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham is the clearest picture of Silicon Valley's unacknowledged sexism to ever find its way in print.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
As US fiber buildouts spur competion, benefiting consumers, threats to net neutrality loom — How US Internet service might get better—and worse—in 2014 — 2013, like just about every year before it, was the year nearly all of us complained about our Internet service. — “It's too slow!” we said.| CoinText.com: |
US Department of Treasury's FinCEN backtracks, says Bitcoin miners are not considered money transmitters and don't need to register with the agency — FinCEN Issues Bitcoin-Friendly Ruling for Miners — The US Department of Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) …
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SlashGear and newsBTC. Tweets: @keybumpkid, @polemitis and @andrewhires. Thanks:@_trendspotter
| RT: |
French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion — France's Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture.
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Businessweek, SlashGear, The Verge and Forbes
| Mary Ellen Gordon, PhD / Flurry Blog: |
Kindles saw 24x bump in activations on Christmas vs. other Dec. days, Apple saw 2.3x bump — Amazon Delivers A Great Christmas For Its Kindle — In less than a decade, connected devices have become an integral part of Christmas. They are commonly wished for and given as gifts …
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TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, Android Beat, PadGadget, PandoDaily, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog and AppleInsider. Tweets: @kpkelleher
| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 update adds Always-On HDR, Android 4.3, more — NVIDIA has updated the Tegra Note 7 to Android 4.3, pushing out a new update this morning which also boosts the DirectStylus pen technology for left-handed tableteers, and adds the much-anticipated AOHDR photography system.
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NVIDIA, IntoMobile, Electronista, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, Gigaom and AndroidGuys
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